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Jul 3
My latest article was fun to research and write. Military history offers few case studies as informative as they are absurd. In 1932, the Australian Army deployed against an emu population in the Western Australian wheatbelt. It failed comprehensively. Big brained, well-armed soldiers were beaten by flightless birds with brains the size of a walnut. 1/5 🧵Image
2/ What makes this worth serious attention is the institutional context. This was the same army that, fourteen years earlier at Hamel, had run one of the most sophisticated combined arms operations of the First World War under Monash. By 1932, that institutional learning had evaporated.
3/ The Emu War showcases in a single low-stakes campaign, five failure patterns that recur in every serious military disaster: the wrong tool for the problem, no intelligence preparation, no functioning adaptation loop, the wrong success metrics, and force employed for optics rather than strategic logic.
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Jul 3
APPLE IS CHARGING YOU $2.99/MONTH FOR SPACE THAT'S ALREADY ON YOUR PHONE.
You don't need to pay it.
I freed 47GB in 10 minutes without spending a cent.

Here are the 5 steps to copy:👇
1 ▸ Kill the Photo Storage Trap
Go to Settings → Photos → turn OFF “iCloud Photos” if you don’t use it. Then open the Photos app → Albums → Recently Deleted → Delete All. iOS secretly holds deleted photos for 30 days. That alone usually frees 3-8GB instantly.
2 ▸ Offload Apps You Don’t Actually Use
Settings → General → iPhone Storage. Scroll through the list. Tap every app you haven’t opened in 30+ days and hit “Offload App.” It deletes the app but keeps your data — so you can reinstall anytime without losing a thing. Easy 5-10GB back.
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Jul 3
@PressSec 1/4 You actually make me SICK to my stomach...as if this country isn't DIVIDED enough as it is, thanks to P'sOS like YOU and the ENTIRE Trump Cabinet out here race baiting everyone. How DARE you call all Democrats "Hamas terrorists, illegal aliens, and violent Image
2/4 criminals" just because you don't LIKE them. I don't like you ReTRUMPlicans either, but I don't call all of YOU "spineless, immoral, lying, corrupt Trump sycophants with no moral or ethical compasses" even though that is what you TRULY are! I am NO terrorist...unlike YOU I
3/4 was in an Army uniform for 25 YEARS fighting off terrorists and protecting the freedoms YOU enjoy that gives YOU the right to free speech, which you are ABUSING with your FUCKED up words. There will be a day of reckoning for you, not only from investigations
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Jul 3
Lmao cops 😜😜😜😜😜😜

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Jul 3
LMFAO cops 😜😜😜😜😜

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Jul 3
DURING A SALARY INTERVIEW:

"WHAT ARE YOUR SALARY EXPECTATIONS?"

MOST PEOPLE SAY SOMETHING LIKE: "I'M FLEXIBLE, WHATEVER THE COMPANY DEEMS FAIR."

WINNING ANSWER:
1/ Anchor Rejection

Status: They first ask for your number to keep you down below.

Response: "Before giving a number, what is the budget range for this role?"

Why it works: The one who states the first number usually loses. Make them show their cards.
2/ Research Anchor

Status: You need to provide a number.

Response: "Based on market conditions and my experience for this role, I'm thinking of a figure between X and Y."

Why it works: A data-driven range leaves an impression that's not greedy, but informed.
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Jul 3
1/13 A study from 2016 suggests the immune system may play a much bigger role in protecting us from heart disease than previously appreciated.
Researchers found that people with higher levels of IgG antibodies were significantly less likely to suffer a heart attack, /2
2/13 even after accounting for established risk factors such as blood pressure and cholesterol. They also found that antibodies directed against oxidised LDL were associated with lower cardiovascular risk.
/3
3/13 This is an important reminder that the problem is not the presence of cholesterol-carrying lipoproteins. The real danger begins when those particles become damaged.
LDL particles transport cholesterol, triglycerides and fat-soluble nutrients to every cell in the body. /4
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Jul 3
Thinking about Chicago's murder rate. Steady this year compared to 2025, but way down from 2021 and about the same as 2004, 2010, and 2011. The number in 2025 was the lowest in decades, but Chicago has been losing population, generally. Especially black people. (1/11) Image
Chicago non-hispanic black male population age 18-40 vs everybody else. The former group is victimized in ~50% of Chicago murders. And this % is remarkably stable, at 48% + or - 2% every year since 1990! This group offends at a similar (albeit slightly higher) rate.
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The Chicago population of non-hispanic black men 18-40 has dropped 38% since 2000 (185k in 2000 to 124K in 2020 to ~115k in 2025). If this decline includes a proportionate representation of killers (a big if), it could bring down the city's murder rate ~ 19% (half of 38%) (3/11) Image
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Jul 3
GG : "Parishes like HTB historically funneled unmarried pregnant women out of their local wealthy London neighborhoods and into these hidden regional church-run homes to avoid community gossip and preserve "respectability""🤔 Image
X is hiding my Coram posts too.
So guess where I'm gonna focus my attention now.. Image
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Jul 2
About 100 years ago, on July 5, 1926, the least talkative president in American history stood up in Philadelphia and gave what I'd argue is the best speech anyone has ever given about the Declaration of Independence. Not many read it anymore. The 250th seems like a good time to fix that. /1
The man was Calvin Coolidge. Silent Cal. So famously stingy with words that the jokes about it outlived him, and, of all things, born on the Fourth of July. That's the man who showed up to the 150th with a 45-minute argument about where America comes from. /2
My last thread on this period followed the revolutionary ideas outward: a newspaper in St. Petersburg, a copycat declaration in Belgium. Coolidge goes in the other direction. He wants to know where the idea came from in the first place, and his answer was profound. /3
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Jul 2
What's with the UK Labour party and Donald Trump's administration's obsession with McDonald's ? 😅
Anything to do with IT infrastructure?
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Jul 2
Ohhhhh my god this isn't what I was trying to type but since I fucked up the typing and how it came out this was the result 🤣🤣🤣🤣

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